Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Should I Vomit NOW or LATER?


I am sick and tired of this, so I have to chime in.
Protests, complaints, threats, property damage and all done by the "forward thinking", peace loving, open minded left wing activists.
Now don’t get me wrong, other than the protests I think that gay people are not involved in the majority of this. I know too many of them to think that they are threatening bodily harm on someone else, for the most part.
I do, however blame these far left Marxists who are so very "open-minded" that they actually are trying to stifle the LDS church and its right to speak out on its beliefs. The LDS church knocked doors, the Marxists battered ours in. The LDS church used a grassroots approach; the Marxists burned books of Mormon in our grass. The church voiced their belief, and the Marxists are now trying to silence our voice.
Tell me now, how burning a book of Mormon in front of a church is so very different than burning a cross in someone’s yard. The only difference I see is at least the people that burned crosses had the guts to stand up and say "It was us. We did it." These cowardly activists do their damage, use their intimidation tactics and then run.
I have so many problems with this but will only address a few of them.
1) Since when are we "close minded conservatives" no longer allowed to disagree? For years our nation’s democratic process has established laws and amended the constitution. Some laws pass, some don’t, but that does not mean there will never be another chance to pass legislation. Do like we do when we get beat. Suck it up, formulate a new plan and try again another year. I honestly cannot think of a single occasion when a conservative law was defeated that we protested, but every time these socialists do not get their way, they act like spoiled children and cry until we tire of hearing them and cave. It’s absurd! I have better than a dozen nieces and nephews all under the age of fourteen who are more mature than this.
2) I am very curious how these activists want religious conservatives to allow them their rights when ours are being systematically taken away. Religious displays have been so reduced in the last ten years that I am just waiting for the day that the government gathers all religious literature, all religious displays and bans them. And this is not just happening to Christians. The city of Golden Colorado just told a rabbi that he could not place a menorah next to the cities Christmas tree so that Jewish people would not feel left out during the Christmas season. Their reason? "We don’t want the holiday season to be religious." IT’S CHRISTMAS!!! Christ-mas. It’s a Christian holiday for us to celebrate our beliefs! People get time off of work and school BECAUSE OF THE CHRISTIAN HOLIDAY!!!! And we really would not begrudge a menorah to our Jewish brethren because it’s a holiday season for the Jews too! But the liberal left has decided that the mere mention of the word "God" is so offensive that any display must not be tolerated. It's my experience that when I am so sensitive about things is when I guilty of doing something. For example, when I was a teenager, if I was acting like an idiot and someone mentioned my parents, I would immediately become defensive and tell them I did not want to talk about my parents. Is it my fault that people are perhaps not living in a way that makes them feel GOOD when we discuss religion? I'm not responsible for whatever guilty feelings the Liberal Left may experience when I talk about God, but that doesn't mean I should have to pay for their problem.
3) I don’t care if people agree with me in my belief that the constitution is based on Christian principles. It is up for their own private interpretation as far as I am concerned. However, I would like just one person to disagree with me when I say that the constitution was written by Christians. When they drafted the Constitution they opened the meeting with a prayer! Christians settled this nation when they sought freedom from the religious oppression that they faced in Europe. That being said, the only reason that we as a nation have ANY rights is thanks to the Christians that have granted those rights to us. I think we still deserve the right to speak if something makes us uncomfortable, and people had better be careful when they bite the hand that feeds.
So please, with this in mind, forgive me for not being more open to this new plight. Forgive me for not wanting to liberate a group of people while I have slowly but surely been repressed over the last decade by myopic left wing radicals who claim that they are just being fair.
The hypocrisy of the whole situation is just disgusting.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

It's... A... GIRL!!!!!


So we went to the doctor...
And we got an ultrasound...
And the decided since the region that we don't speak of had no telltale protrusions it must be a girl. That's right. A girl.
And since it's a girl we obviously cannot name her Brock.
And since we can't name her Brock we have to choose another name. We would like to thank everyone that contributed ideas for names back in the day. It was fun playing. We actually have a name that we like a lot. Of course we aren't going to tell. That will ruin the surprise.
In related news, we watched the election results last night, and after the first minute or so we saw the futility of our cause. Democracy proved once again how flexible a system it is by actually changing to a socialist system! Kinda like those frogs that can change their sex. You know, the ones that theoretically could procreate with themselves if only they could find a way to be both male AND female at the same time? Well that is how our government just transformed. If only Democracy and Socialism could peacefully coexist and procreate with each other, we might actually see this fantastic "Change" that Barack Hussein Amal Faqir Nathan Obama is talking about (I threw Nathan in there because, after all, he is a patriotic American. Just ask Oprah). Alas, Just like frogs reproducing within their own selves, this hybrid form of government only exists in a world made of candy canes and planes and bright red choo choo trains (yes, I stole that line from Bad Religion). Fortunately I did see one shining ray of hope from our country. That's right, both Arizona AND California defeated Gay Marriage. Honestly, who saw that coming.
Gays defeated, Girl on the way, healthcare for all, life isn't as bad as it could be.

On a related and more serious note, I am glad that I got to vote. Even though it didn't go the way I would have liked, at least I had my say. Too many will say that my vote doesn't really matter, because in the end, the electoral college will decide who gets sworn in. But saying my vote doesn't count is like saying that only the one that fertilizes the egg has any relevance. Personally, I find that ridiculous and I would have been ecstatic if any one of them had assisted in creating my little girl.